We have heard from many that they feel the need to speak up and let their objections, or at least ambivalence, be known about the Columbia-Trump deal - to the administration, their colleagues, their students, and the public at large. To provide a near-term outlet for such expression, please join us:

WHEN/WHAT: Monday (7/28) silent vigil, 12-1pm- typically only focused on ICE-abducted students but this week we  will expand its focus to include written statements about “The Columbia/Trump Deal”.

WHERE/HOW 116th street & Broadway, wear black, bring your own homemade sign with your individual sentiment, or hold a sign provided by colleagues.

NYC NO KINGS March: Join Our Columbia Contingent!

Hands off students! Hands off science! No Kings at Columbia!

Saturday, June 14th, 2025:

• 1PM @ Amsterdam & W 116th St

• 2pm @ MMC Plaza (W 46th St between 5th & 6th Avs)

About our No Kings Columbia contingent:

In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies.

🚨On Saturday, June 14, we’re taking to the streets nationwide. We’re not gathering to feed his ego. We’re building a movement that leaves him behind.🚨

The flag doesn’t belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. We’re not watching history happen. We’re making it.

On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t—to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.

This Columbia University event is for

• Columbia affiliates (faculty, staff, students, alumni) to

• meet at 1pm (gate at 116th St. & Broadway) and

• travel together to the main rally at Bryant Park.

Bring your MetroCard/OMNY and walking shoes!

Check out nokings.org for more information.

A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

More about NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance From Indivisible:

Indivisible and a coalition of pro-democracy partner organizations announced the NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance on Flag Day (June 14). The actions are set to take place during Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., on June 14. Instead of allowing this military parade to be the center of gravity, activists will make action everywhere else the story of America that day. 

Alongside local organizers, partners, and leaders from across the pro-democracy and pro-worker movements, activists across the country will come together for marches, rallies, and demonstrations to reject corrupt, authoritarian politics in the United States.

This mobilization is inspired by the success of Hands Off! and May Day and is intended to once again motivate actions in towns and cities in every state in the country. Over 100 events have already been registered all over the country, and more will be added here. 

Everyone is invited to this silent demonstration and vigil in the tradition of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and other Mothers’/People’s movements to recognize students and academic colleagues detained by or forced to flee from ICE for constitutionally protected free speech, including from Columbia: Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, and Ranjani Srinivasan, and others. This Friday vigil is in addition to our ongoing Monday vigils.

Please wear black for this one-hour silent vigil if you intend to stand with us.

ABOUT OUR WEEKLY VIGILS:

Columbia faculty and staff are gathering every week across campuses for silent vigils to call for an end to the persecution of our students and scholars.

Concurrent vigils held on campuses across the country will all continue weekly — Mondays, 12pm ET. Join us.

HANDS OFF TOOLKIT!

Hold a silent vigil on your campus: Link to Toolkit

Everyone is invited to come and meet and greet with scientists and health researchers who have had their funding cut at the Defunded Science Fair. 

We aim to help build support and awareness for all the important research being cut by the federal government.

If you are a researcher, please sign up to either present a poster of your defunded research or carry a sign saying "Ask me about my Defunded Research" so that we can showcase for alumni the diversity of important research and training being cut (climate, child psychiatry, global health, social determinants of health, women’s and LGBTQ+ health, cancer, Alzheimer’s and much much more).

The US Government’s CUTS to Science and Medical Research at Universities:

CUT: Anything on Climate

CUT: Anything on Global Health

CUT: Anything on Social Determinants of Health

CUT: Anything on Women’s Health

CUT: Anything on LGBTQ+ Health

AND

At Columbia the CUTS have gone even further including research for Alzheimer’s, Cancer, Pediatric health, and EVERY young medical and public health investigator training program!

Faculty and staff at Columbia, Tufts and Georgetown Universities launch Campus Vigils for Abducted Students

Professors and staff members at three universities whose students have been abducted by the Trump administration held simultaneous vigils to call for their release, and say they will do so weekly until every abductee comes home.

New York City, Washington, DC, and Somerville, MA – Students may be taking final exams and heading home for the summer, but today more than sixty professors and staff members at Columbia University assembled silently for an hour in the rain, holding photographs of Palestinian Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, Indian Georgetown postdoc Badar Khan Suri, and Turkish Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, who have spent two months in DHS custody as the Trump administration seeks to deport them for their political beliefs and speech. Faculty at Tufts and Georgetown held simultaneous vigils on their campuses.

“We will not allow our communities to forget that members of our communities have been made into political prisoners by the Trump regime for speaking about the plight of Palestinians,” said Columbia University Associate Professor of Classics Joseph Howley. Tufts Faculty gathered in front of Tisch Library, while Georgetown Faculty assembled in Georgetown’s Red Square. At Columbia, black-clad professors and staff stood silently in the center of Columbia’s campus. Faculty at each school displayed photographs of all three detained students.

HANDS OFF TOOLKIT!

Hold a silent vigil on your campus: Link to Toolkit

Please join us for our ICE Watch Training for CUIMC affiliates (students, faculty, and staff)

Wednesday, April 30th, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (Virtual)

Register here: https://bit.ly/CUIMC-ICE-watch

If you are dismayed at what's been happening to our students, this is a great opportunity to gain concrete skills and plug into the vital work of protecting one another!